DialectGuessr

Where did you grow up?

Type your hometown. The map will tell you how it thinks you talk — you tell it where it went wrong.

What do you call it?

Pick a thing, say your word for it, and the map lights up where your word is the local one.

How do you say it?

The sounds that split the English-speaking world: the R in “car”, the vowel in “bath”, three ways to say “tune”.

Would you say it like that?

The small bits of grammar that give away where somebody grew up.

America, state by state

18 US maps from the Harvard Dialect Survey: which word leads in every state. Open the US atlas →

Harvard Dialect Survey, Bert Vaux and Scott Golder, 2002–2003 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

The community map

Every pin is somebody who took the full quiz, placed where they grew up. Open the community map →